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Oemo Systemo !Jbu1IeSmKM Thu 13 Nov 2008 05:20:00 No.292876 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>292887

I got this Portra 160NC pretty cheap but the noise is bugging me, it expired in 2005 by the way.

So what does /p/ think about expired film?

(I also like to show of my "nothing to shoot and no fantasy"-way of getting through the first roll)

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Oemo Systemo !Jbu1IeSmKM Thu 13 Nov 2008 05:21:00 No.292877 Report

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ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA Thu 13 Nov 2008 05:25:00 No.292878 Report

Quoted By: >>292879 >>292882

2005 isn't really expired enough for that much grain. I'm guessing you underexposed it and the lab or your scanner pulled it up and that increased the graininess.

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Martin !!ve2Q1ETWmJH Thu 13 Nov 2008 05:32:00 No.292879 Report

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>>292878
could just be the nature of the film?
never used it myself, so wouldn't know

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Anonymous Thu 13 Nov 2008 05:42:00 No.292881 Report

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Oemo Systemo !Jbu1IeSmKM Thu 13 Nov 2008 05:46:00 No.292882 Report

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>>292878
Well yes, that shot was a bit underexposed, I used it because it had the worst grain/noise, although since I cranked the blacks it's mostly just showing huge ass grain.

The whole roll was very noisy in the shadow areas, so I have to get rid of all the shadow detail :(

Bottom right of this image shows it better I guess.
There is really no information besides noise.
The person moved and blured it so the picture isn't much good anyway, but this is what I'm seeing in every single picture.

Pulling in the blacks to get rid of noise or whatever the proper english term is isn't something I mind doing when post processing films like superia 800, but portra 160.

Also, I develop my own film and have the scan software do as little as possible to the image, everything is done in photoshop.
PS. pardon for not editing the exif, they're from the same roll though.

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ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA Thu 13 Nov 2008 05:56:00 No.292886 Report

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>>292879
>could just be the nature of the film?
Wouldn't think so. Portra is Kodak's high-end pro color negative film, and Kodak tends to worship at the altar of Fine Grain, and 160 is the least-grainy speed available.

I've got a few rolls of expired-in-2007 160VC (which isn't exactly the same as 160NC, but should be close enough for the purposes of grain size comparison) sitting in my fridge, but I'd rather not shoot 'em right now to test it out since I already have two cameras loaded up with film I need to get through.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Nov 2008 05:58:00 No.292887 Report

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>>292876
Somewhat unrelated to your question, but do you have a larger version of this? I love it, grain and all.

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Oemo Systemo !Jbu1IeSmKM Thu 13 Nov 2008 06:08:00 No.292890 Report

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>>292887
Sure, here you go.
Glad you like it.

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Anonymous Thu 13 Nov 2008 06:12:00 No.292892 Report

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>>292890
Thank you!
Oh, and if it's ever too grainy, just B&W.

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